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The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...

By: Msmelanie

Chapter Sixteen: All Hell is About to Break Loose.

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A little before 11:00 P.M. Inuyasha and the others met Sesshoumaru at the rendezvous point...

Sesshoumaru watched the confused expressions on everyone's face as he held his cellphone up to his ear.

"What are you doing?!" Inuyasha barked angrily. "Where is Naraku?!"

"I'm calling him." Sesshoumaru replied calmly.

Everyone looked at Sesshoumaru with a strange expression.

"How is he calling? He is not yelling." Miroku pointed out.

"By magic means of that black rectangular object he has to his ear." Sango explained.

'Close enough.' Kagome thought.

Kawayou growled. If this was supposed to be a serious battle, why were they CALLING the enemy to show up? "Hey you, what the hell is going on?! Why are you-?!"

Sesshoumaru put his finger up to his lips as he started to talk on the phone. Everyone watched as he seemed to start talking to himself. "...perhaps. Maybe.Yes, I am. Yes, the usual. Yes, now. Perhaps, perhaps not."

Inuyasha was getting tired of Sesshoumaru's tactics and grabbed his phone. He yelled "Hey you *******! Get over here and show your face right now, so I can pulverize it!"

Sesshoumaru took his cell phone back, but let it drop to the ground when he realized it was covered in spit.

Sesshoumaru looked angrily at Inuyasha. "Why did you have to do that?"

"Why the hell didn't you call him earlier?!" Inuyasha barked angrily.

Sessoumaru glanced at Inuyasha calmly. "He will be caught off guard. He expects Kawayou and I to be here. Maybe Kagome and apparently you now, but none of the others. If I called him sooner, he would have had time to investigate and prepare."

Inuyasha huffed, a little peeved that his answer made such sense. 'Catching the enemy off guard. Damn, I shoulda known that.'

Sesshoumaru turned his back on Inuyasha. "Wait. He will arrrive soon."

Everyone waited patiently for their life-time rival to show up. Kawayou continued to hold his mother's hand tightly, and looked at the flea on his shoulder. It was ignoring eye contact with him, and looked like it was trying to find the safest way to get away.

Just then, out of the shadows, Naraku started to walk toward them. He frowned as he looked at the number of people who had shown up. "I thought you said this would be a friendly fight for my Kagome."

Inuyasha growled. "What?!"

"Correct." Sesshoumaru replied. "If you end up winning you can have the human woman. I've no need for her anymore."

Kagome was about to rebuttal, but Inuyasha did that for her. "Why you ****ing piece of ****! I oughtta-!!"

"If you kill Inuyasha again I guess." Sesshoumaru corrected himself. "Now..." He lowered his gaze to the ground, but still kept his eyes on Naraku. Everyone slowly started to get into position. Kagome had started to stand behind Kawayou while Inuyasha unsheathed the transformed Tetsusaiga and stood in front. Kouga moved toward the left of the boy, while Miroku moved to the right.

Sango pulled out Hiraikotsu and stood her ground beside Miroku while Shippou stayed tensely on her shoulder. Kirara stood firmly below her, her hair standing slightly on it's end.

Sesshoumaru's eyes came up slowly to meet Naraku's. "...your time is over!" he announced his eyes growing wider with his declaration.

Just then, Naraku watched as everyone seemed to spring out at him all at once. He dodged the Hiraikotsu with ease, but found the wolf was already behind him. He swiftly jumped up into the air, but Inuyasha had already jumped up there anticipating Naraku's move. He was grinning as he was about to swing the Tetsusaiga when he suddenly felt himself being blown backward. He landed hard on the ground, but quickly sprang to his feet to see what had happened.

Naraku grinned. "I had a feeling you were going to try and surprise me." he said as he looked up into the night sky. Kagura and Kanna swiftly moved down and stood in front of Naraku.

"Seems the playing field is a bit more even." Naraku grinned.

Inuyasha looked at the women in front of him. "Get out of the way or I'll tear you in half with Tetsusaiga!"

Neither Kagura or Kanna listened and instead both started to attack him simultaneously.

While Sango, Miroku and Kouga started to attack Naraku again.

Sesshoumaru felt like frowning. 'Damn. He's going to block Inuyasha off with those two and start fighting us.' He looked back at Kawayou who was still just watching everything. 'When will my creation figure out it's powers?' He looked at Kagura and Kanna. 'This fight is not in good standing with those two involved.'

"Dammit!" Inuyasha yelled as he barely managed from accidently dropping Tetsusaiga to the ground. He was heaving. "Why aren't you any weaker?!"

Kagura and Kanna looked at each other, then Kagura looked at Inuyasha. "We came from Naraku and so are not really full youkai's...or half youkai's. Apparently to the jewel, we weren't even considered as creatures of any kind. Therefore, our power was never tampered with."

Kagura pointed an accusing finger at Inuyasha. "Therefore, we CANNOT allow you to kill Naraku! I very much ENJOY living in this time, and will not risk losing myself!"

Inuyasha swung at her with Tetsusaiga, but she ducked. "Then what the hell are you doing here now?!"

"We have no clue what will happen if Naraku dies, and personally we don't want to find out!" Kagura yelled as she started to blow Inuyasha back again.

Sesshoumaru watched both fights. He, Sango, Miroku and Kouga were trying to fight Naraku with little success while Inuyasha was barely keeping the women he was fighting at bay. He quickly glanced over at Kawayou who was still just standing there in front of Kagome whom was once again trying to fire one of her arrows at Naraku.

'This is tough!' Kagome thought. 'One inch off and I hit someone!' She silently wished she hadn't quit taking archery lessons.

Naraku also noticed Sesshoumaru's quick glances at the child. 'What is going on? Why did he bring the child in the first place?'

Naraku watched as Kawayou suddenly looked around. His ears snapped back as he sensed a new presence approaching from behind. He also noticed Kagome hadn't sensed it. Kawayou extended his claws and quickly jumped behind Kagome while another creature also jumped soundlessly from the boy's shoulder.

Kagome looked at his sudden movement. She put her bow and arrow down from the distraction. "Kawayou, what is it?"

Yura suddenly came swinging out a tree on her hairs. "My goodness. What? A genuine fun fight and no one bothered to invite me?"

'Hmm. How did that little demon sense her? Even I can't sense her...' Naraku thought as he batted away another attempt of Sango's Hiraikotsu. Naraku grinned and realized only one person at the time could protect the boy, and SHE was out of her element. He quickly ignored Sesshoumaru's attack and jumped in the air, sending a swirl of miasma straight at the little demon.

"Kawayou, look out!" Kagome yelled as she suddenly grabbed Kawayou and made him hit the floor. Not completely in time though, for the miasma had nicked his right shoulder.

Everyone stopped their fighting for a second, but quickly started fighting again as their opponents had tried to sneak attack them.

Inuyasha tried desperately to get away from the girls, but not only had they kept their original power, they had 500 years of extra experience on their side. 'Dammit, get out of the way!' "NARAKU, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PUP?!"

Naraku grinned as he continued taking the offense in his fight. He was still glancing back at Kawayou to see if his hunch was right. He watched as Kagome had picked him off the ground while he grabbed his shoulder.She looked back at his shoulder, and she smiled. Although Naraku couldn't see, he knew his own powerful miasma attack must be healing in order for her to smile like that.

Sesshoumaru barely registered what Naraku was doing, since he himself had been stealing glances at the boy. 'Oh no. He knows why the pup is here now.'

He quickly started to run away towards Kagome and Kawayou, leaving his allies to deal with Naraku.

"That jerk!" Sango yelled. "He ran off to leave us!"

"Sango! Look out!" Miroku called as another shot of Miasma had started to come straight toward her. She fell to the ground just in time to ignore it.

While in a difficult battle of his own, Inuyasha was very uncomfortable as he saw Sesshoumaru running toward Kagome and Kawayou. He quickly tried to run away again, but was stopped by Kanna while Kagura suddenly started to run away.

Sesshoumaru quickly ran up to Kagome and grabbed her hand angrily. "Why haven't you taught the pup how to fight with his powers yet?!"

"I can't!" Kagome rebuttaled. "It is something he must learn to do on his own!"

Kawayou growled at the way Sesshoumaru was holding his mom's hand, but didn't get a chance to yell at him as he was suddenly yanked away.

Kagome reached out for him, but Sesshoumaru held his fingers in front of her.

"W-wait...y-you said you lost all your dangerous powers!" Kagome shouted in shock. There was no way he could be capable of his poisonous claw attack now, could he?

Sesshoumaru frowned. It was apparent his bluff hadn't worked, so instead he dropped his fingers, pulled something from his pocket, dropped Kawayou to the ground and ran behind Kagome with a metal syringe at her neck.

As Kawayou realized what was happening he quickly got to his feet, but didn't try to run for the syringe. 'I'm fast, but there is no way I'm THAT fast.'

"Smart boy." Sesshoumaru replied to Kawayou's growling. "Now, you have to the count of three to figure out your power before we find out what exactly is in this syringe. One..."

Kawayou's eyes went wide and his heart started to beat rapidly. He quickly looked at his hands, trying to figure out what he could do. Just then, he sensed someone coming up from behind him. 'Dammit, if I run mom's dead!'

"Two..." Sesshoumaru said as he held the syring next to Kagome's throat tighter. Kawayou looked at his hands and tried to think of what to do. The only thing he could think of was "MOMMY!!!!!!"

Just then, he felt himself being lifted off the ground.

Sesshoumaru watched as Kagura had run away with Kawayou. He briskly let Kagome go and watched as Kagura took his possession away.

"KAWAYOU!! KAGOME!!" Inuyasha shouted out as he finally got away from Kanna. He had been running toward them as fast as he could but had arrived too late. He looked angrily at Sesshoumaru and raised the Tetsusaiga to strike him when...

He heard Kawayou's yelp. He looked up at the sky and quickly ran to the left of himself to catch Kawayou. He looked at his pup's side.

"NARAKU!!" He yelled his anger overwhelming his physical thought. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PUP?!"

Naraku would've 'Ku ku ku'd' a response, but did not like the results he saw. Kagura had sliced open the boy's side to extract the Shikon jewel that should have been there. 'His extra high senses... his healing powers...it should have been there?!' "WHERE IS MY SHIKON NO TAMA?!"

Just then, Kagome caught up to where Inuyasha and Kawayou were sitting. Kawayou was already healing again. "Ow! Dammit, that ****ing HURT!"

Kagome held Kawayou close to her, and surprisingly, Inuyasha held her close and growled protectively. 'How the hell did this happen?! Where were Miroku, Kouga or Sango at?' Inuyasha growled his dissapproval as he realized they were ALL fighting Naraku at the same time.

Sesshoumaru came towards them, causing Inuyasha to growl lower and pull Kagome and Kawayou closer to his embrace.

"Don't overreact." Sesshoumaru replied. "I simply wanted to speed up the process." He held up the syringe and pushed it up. Nothing came out.

"You kept me hostage with nothing but an empty syringe?!" Kagome cried out.

Sesshoumaru just ignored her.

Inuyasha continued to growl. Between having Sesshoumaru's trick and Naraku's vicious attack, he was getting very angry. VERY angry.

Naraku looked back at Kagome and the others in frustration. He thought the kid must have had the shikon jewel. But if it wasn't in his side, then where? 'Fine then. I'll just have to rip him apart piece by piece until I find it.'

Inuyasha noticed Naraku's glare and stood protectively in front of Kagome with the transformed Tetsusaiga. 'No way is he getting near MY pup again!'

Then Kagura and Kanna came flying out of nowhere and suddenly attacked Inuyasha, trying to get to Kawayou.

Kagome quickly saw what was happening and grabbed an arrow from its holder on her back and put it quickly inside her arrow. "Move and you are dead!" She cried out as she held her arrow straight in the direction of Kagura and Kanna.

They stopped. They knew better than to mess with Kagome's arrows.

Kawayou just watched as he slowly stood up, his side slowly starting to heal. 'I don't get it. They fought pops evenly, but they're not moving because of mom's arrow? Just how powerful is it?' Then he noticed that the arrow was emitting a powerful aura. "Hey mom, how are you doing that?"

Kagome didn't glance at Kawayou as Inuyasha quickly came over to guard them from any attack by Naraku. "I'm concentrating on my arrow."

Kawayou looked at his hands. 'If I concentrate on my hands, could I help any?'

Sesshoumaru wanted to grin, but he didn't. He looked at Kawayou who was continually looking at his hands. 'I think he's starting to figure something out.'

Inuyasha also noticed it. 'I think the pups starting to figure out his power.' He looked at Naraku. 'but should I leave them and fight Naraku? Dammit, why is EVERYONE out there fighting?!'

"I'll watch them." he heard from behind. He swung his head around to see Toutousai with Kirara near him. "I've nothing else to do."

Inuyasha looked back. Kirara wasn't transformed, but if she was Kagome and Kawayou could get out. "Will you get Kagome and my pup out of here?"

Toutousai looked at him. "Are you sure? I thought they were supposed to-"

"-they were UNTIL the pup suddenly became the target!" Inuyasha barked. He looked at Kirara. "Now transform and get them out of here safely! I'll take care of everything else!"

"Uhhh...mom?"

"Inuyasha, I'm not leaving!" Kagome shouted at the Hanyou.

"M-mom?"

"Hell, this is getting TOO out of hand Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted back.

Kagome glanced back quickly still keeping her bow on Kagura and Kanna. "Kawayou's leaving, yes! But there's no way I am!"

"MOMMA, I DON'T LIKE THIS!" Kawayou shouted.

Kagome and Inuyasha turned around to see that Kawayou's hands were glowing a bright pulsing blue.

"I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE! IT'S STARTING TO HURT, MAKE IT STOP!!" Kawayou yelled as the blue started to pulse brighter and faster.

Kagome looked at Kawayou's hands. They were starting to shake. "Oh no!" She turned back to Inuyasha not realizing that Kagura and Kanna had long since left. "Inuyasha, I don't think he can handle his powers yet!"

"Well, don't yell at me!" Inuyasha barked. "Help him!"

"I don't know how!" Kagome yelled back.

"MOMMY!" Kawayou cried out, tears starting to emerge on his cheeks. '****! I thought having my side cut hurt! Compared to this it was just a ****ing scratch!' "MOMMMMMMYYYYYY!!!!! MY CHEST REALLLY HURRRRTS!"

Kagome tried to grab his hands, but they stung her fingers before she could even reach out to them.

Inuyasha and Kagome were so busy listening to Kawayou's cries that they didn't know that the battle behind them had dissipated. Naraku, Kagura and Kanna were long gone and only the allies remained watching helplessly behind them.

"THIS POWER HURTS! I DON'T WANT TO HOLD IT ANYMORE! GET IT THE **** OUT!!" Kawayou screamed out loudly to the night.

You could still hear his painful echo as he slowly hit the ground. He could feel his moms embrace around him and the deadly smell of his dad's breath on his face. His hands were still tainted blue and shaking, but his eyes were unfocused, trying to imagine if what he saw was real...

The thing that had come out of his hands...

Everyone stared on in shock. Right there beside the almost unconscious Kawayou was...

half...

of the long lost Shikon No Tama.

Unfortunately, in this state of shock only one person recovered fast enough to make their move. Before anyone knew what was happening, Yura had swung out on her hair strands and grabbed it.

Then she threw it straight at Sesshoumaru who was a good distance from the crowd. "Now fix what you messed up like a good boy!"

Sesshoumaru quickly caught the Shikon no Tama before anyone started to run toward him. He quickly swallowed it and said the words that would change the life of mankind forever. "Give every Youkai back their true full powers so we may rise above mankind once again!"

The wind slowly stirred the leaves on the cold forest floor. The signal...

that all Hell was about to break lose.

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Yep, that was Chapter 16! Anyone surprised by the outcome of events? I hope you were. I know I can't do battle scenes, I'm sorry. I really did try, but as you can tell it wasn't the battle that ended up being important. Now, time for some thanks! CX-chan, Nickerel, Tenshineko, niasdreams and TsukinoDeynatsu! Thanks for explaining the 'sama' deal, but thanks especially to TsukinoDeynatsu for mentioning Lady and Lord! (Now I'll try and call Kagome, Lady Kagome when Miroku addresses her.)

Also, thanks to those who have spotted my flaws! Really, it does help when you spot a flaw. I want this to be really great before I put this up anywhere. So far, many of you have spotted the 'sit' flaw at breakfast time. Thanks, I went right over it! Still, I just found two flaws in Chapter 14 myself. 1.Kagome stepped off Kawayou and before she knew it she had been grabbed by Kouga. (Oops. She wasn't on Kawayou. She was on KIRARA.^^') 2.Kagome was about to scold her son when he ran over to Inuyasha and held Shippou off. "Told ya I could it, no sweat!" (Umm...Kawayou held him UP not OFF.)

So see. The more mistakes you catch, the better the story will be.

BTW, I should make this a rule. If Esther (my sister) writes something in her review, DON"T BELIEVE IT! (She loves to mess with people's minds for some reason.) Now, on to some answers for your reviews!

To Kaluna and Gillia: Well, I'm sure you know HALF the answer about Kawayou and the jewel now! As for the other, I got your review a little late. Perhaps, maybe in the future? It's great to hear from you and don't worry about long reviews. To me it's like the answer to the square root of negative one. i. imaginary. Does not exist to me. There's just no such thing as a long review in my book! Oh yeah, my sister records them for me. I have to wait to get it in the mail though 'cause my University doesn't carry Cartoon Network.TT

To Esther: Chas...no dark fic. Stop pouting. And please don't lie to my reviewers!

To Kagome-Chan: They will of course!

To Animegoddess: My fic's Da Bomb? Can't say I've heard that yet, but cool!

To Nickerel: The mini replica of Inuyasha's Kimono? Wow, interesting question. Usually my fans forget the little tidbits. (Grins) Good job detective! But you'll have to see what that REALLY had to do with the story later on!~.^

To sakuracherryb61@hotmail.com: New reviewer? Nice to hear from you. You read chapter one to chapter...fourteen...in one night? Okay, dedicated new reader apparently too! I'm glad you're enjoying the story. Mushy stuff between Inuyasha and Kagome? Uhh..^^' There might be some, (I think there was a little in this chapter) but I'm not real good at writing romance. (Although I LOVE reading them!!) Guess you'll see what you'll see! Oh, and Inuyasha being cute? Actually, I'm quite fond of his Human form. Now THAT'S who I voted for in Animerica's swimsuit issue ballot!^.^

To Cacat-angel: Thanks! I know I'm not good at description and so forth. Read any of my fics, and it's the same with all of them. After the story is done though I'm going to try to see if I can add in extra detail. Now, the moment I think of any details for my fanfics and write it down, I usually lose my train of thought. (Does that happen to anyone else?) So I try to concentrate on my stories. Still, I might try but it usually ends up making more of a blunder.

To Tenshineko: I'm just so used to hearing from you, I had to respond! Yep, it backfired. Severely apparently since Shippou seems to enjoy the attention! And yep, Inuyasha can protect Kagome from those undeemable 'suitors' without lifting a finger now!^^

To Music: Yes, I try to update once a week or once every two weeks. Depends on the level of difficulty of the chapter. And it's not really a romance. (I just can't get the hang of those.) But if there is an ending couple it will be Inuyasha/Kagome.

To Aisuru: Of course! Yep well...I'll address that more later. Don't worry so much. Protectiveness/possessiveness... well, it is Inuyasha. And yeah, he probably would understand Kawayou better if he could have been with him but C'est la vie.

To Inez: Uh oh. They deleted your account?! That's not good news. I hope you get back on soon! You can't guess what happens in the next chapter? Hmm...then did you have any idea how Chapter 16 would end?

To TsukinoDeynatsu: Once again, a huge thank you for your explanation!

Well, that's it. Hopefully the next chapter won't be too difficult to write. (Good thing I made that outline.) Anyhow, au revoir everyone and enjoy your morning/evening/night!